VERO BEACH — The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Pembroke Pines woman who allegedly posed as a police officer to recover her vehicle from a Vero Beach tow company without paying any charges.

Jennifer Lynn Powers-Sulinski, 34, was booked at the county jail Tuesday on charges of impersonating a law enforcement officer and petty theft, according to jail records. She has been released on $6,000 bond.

Powers-Sulinski called the company Sept. 15 and said she was a Margate police officer and wanted her impounded vehicle, according to a warrant affidavit. She told a man at the shop it was an undercover vehicle and she didn’t want the Margate Police Department to know it was out of town, according to jail records.

When she got to the shop in the 500 block of First Street, she said she was a Boynton Beach police officer and showed a badge, records state, and she got the vehicle without paying.

A man at the shop emailed Margate police to let them know what had happened, the affidavit states, and they called the Sheriff’s Office to say Powers-Sulinski did not work there. Boynton Beach police said she didn’t work there either, jail records state.